I seriously don't care what your Blizzard fanboys say. The fact remains they have been working on this for 7 years now and do nothing it seems but provide false hope of releasing it and a sense of mediocrity in aspects of the game. Whatever.. you fanboys will be sad when its finally released and you're going to ask yourself, "....wtf?! I waited 8 years for this..?!"

The only disappointment I will feel is if Blizzard releases an unfinished game just to please some impatient fans.

I seriously don't care what your Blizzard fanboys say. The fact remains they have been working on this for 7 years now and do nothing it seems but provide false hope of releasing it and a sense of mediocrity in aspects of the game. Whatever.. you fanboys will be sad when its finally released and you're going to ask yourself, "....wtf?! I waited 8 years for this..?!"

Lol, me a fanboy...arent we all a little bit?

Honestly, I can look at it from your point of view and say "ok, theyre talking to damn long, and need to finish this game" and it wouldnt make a difference. I'd still look like a fanboy who just cant wait for his StarCraft fix.

And even though I really like Blizzard and believe alot of what they say, I dont think theyve been working on this game 100% since 2003.

And if your gonna seriously give me the "ive been waiting 8 years" excuse, go play something else while you wait. If you think the game wasnt worth the wait, then I will understand you, but thats not the case.

I seriously don't care what your Blizzard fanboys say. The fact remains they have been working on this for 7 years now and do nothing it seems but provide false hope of releasing it and a sense of mediocrity in aspects of the game. Whatever.. you fanboys will be sad when its finally released and you're going to ask yourself, "....wtf?! I waited 8 years for this..?!"

Oh no, someone is calling us Blizz fanboys on a site called BlizzForums in a section of said site dedicated to discussion of SC2! The horror, the horror.

Think what you want, but like Crazy_Jonny said, I doubt that Blizz has been working non-stop on SC2 for 7 years. Oh, and what mediocrity in aspects of the game are you talking about exactly? Blizz has a reputation for taking their time and releasing finished products when they are ready. If you want a game that is pumped out quickly and needs patch after patch to fix, go buy something from, oh, EA, they certainly pump those games out fast. Sure Red Alert 3 had like 2-3 patches within a week or 2, and it didn't really bring anything new to the table, but it didn't take years and years to come out, so you should be happy with it.

Take your trolling somewhere else, as while smacking down trolls is fun, I have other things to do today.

It has now been 1.5 years or so since the first real info on SC2. Considering the maturity of that form of the game (ie: good enough to present and be seen in a positive light), I'd say it's been worked on as a real project for about 1 to 1.5 years before that (using WC3's codebase as a starting point). So odds are, the game has been in development for 3 years.

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wtf?! I waited 8 years for this

And there's the problem with this attitude.

I'm not "waiting for SC2", as though I'm putting my life on hold until the game comes out. If it comes out in 6 months, fine. If it comes out in a year and a half, fine. I'll buy it when it comes out. But I'm not losing sleep over the fact that the game isn't out.

The "wait" is in no way damaging to my estimation of the game's eventually quality. I am not pining over the game. I am not suspending any activities until the game comes out. I am not pinning my overall psychological well-being on when this game hits and how good it is. The game will arrive when it arrives, and it will have the quality that it has. I will not morn if the game is crappy.

I seriously don't care what your Blizzard fanboys say. The fact remains they have been working on this for 7 years now and do nothing it seems but provide false hope of releasing it and a sense of mediocrity in aspects of the game. Whatever.. you fanboys will be sad when its finally released and you're going to ask yourself, "....wtf?! I waited 8 years for this..?!"

Sounds like you're the only one disappointed. I guess the rest of us have been a little too preoccupied with the parts of our lives that don't revolve around Starcraft... Seriously, all your bitching is actually making me wish SC2 will be worse, just to increase your suffering... given my hopes and expectations, however, that's a very confusing emotion. =(

Sounds like you're the only one disappointed. I guess the rest of us have been a little too preoccupied with the parts of our lives that don't revolve around Starcraft... Seriously, all your bitching is actually making me wish SC2 will be worse, just to increase your suffering... given my hopes and expectations, however, that's a very confusing emotion. =(

Funny, I kinda felt the same way. I think this might be the stupidest argument Ive ever had. I mean, if Blizzard could make the game come out right now, dont you think they would do it?

Even I have days where Im all like "damn, I want this game to come out already, BLIZZARD RELEASE OR I SMASH YOU!!!"; but insulting other people because they try inserting logic in the situation is... ignorant.

I guess thats what happens from lack of info. I might just leave for a while.... and now my rambling is done.

@iAm: There's a reason Blizzard makes games we're so highly anticipating and can play over a decade after it's release. I think you should respect that.

In addition, I second everything Nicol said

Also, serious work on this game didn't finish until World Of WarCraft shipped so it's only been for four years since then. Where's your logic now? This was confirmed at the time of StarCraft 2's announcement.

Oh no, someone is calling us Blizz fanboys on a site called BlizzForums in a section of said site dedicated to discussion of SC2! The horror, the horror.

Think what you want, but like Crazy_Jonny said, I doubt that Blizz has been working non-stop on SC2 for 7 years. Oh, and what mediocrity in aspects of the game are you talking about exactly? Blizz has a reputation for taking their time and releasing finished products when they are ready. If you want a game that is pumped out quickly and needs patch after patch to fix, go buy something from, oh, EA, they certainly pump those games out fast. Sure Red Alert 3 had like 2-3 patches within a week or 2, and it didn't really bring anything new to the table, but it didn't take years and years to come out, so you should be happy with it.

Take your trolling somewhere else, as while smacking down trolls is fun, I have other things to do today.

They will have to patch SC2 after its released a ton anyway. Its a fact of nature. Imbalances will be found and will be required to patch. They will not get all the kinks out in beta, so expect a good handful of patches in the years to com after SC2 is released.

They will have to patch SC2 after its released a ton anyway. Its a fact of nature. Imbalances will be found and will be required to patch. They will not get all the kinks out in beta, so expect a good handful of patches in the years to com after SC2 is released.

Yes, but a good portion of their audience is going to buy the game on day 1. And screwing over a good portion of your audience when they went out of their way to buy your game on day 1 (aka, your biggest fans) is not a wise course of action, if you want to retain your biggest fans.

Obviously, there will be patches and balance fixes; there's a difference between a beta with a few thousand people and a live game with millions hammering on it. But that doesn't excuse shoddy workmanship that could have been corrected with more reasonable and responsible development.